Search Results for: BAFTA Picture to Post Best Short film 1970

[…] and that was it! So 'Blackmail' became the first talking picture ever made in England, and I was in the […]

[…]ough we could go into cages, and I carried my stills camera, and in between shots, I could take photographs, and I soon found that I could sell Those pictures. So my unpaid job really provided me with some income.Speaker 1  12:08  What kind of movie camera did you have that first day?Speak[…]

[…]he nation or did that stay in the family?Jonathan Balcon  21:21  It was, I in fact, when I heard that Puttnam was anxious to acquire it for BAFTA, I offered it to the National Portrait Gallery, which I thought was a better venue. And the family did receive money for it. Not a lot, but I me[…]

[…]eeded that picture very badly but I wasn't going to go down that road, and I didn't speak to that man for many years, and finally he came up to me at BAFTA and said isn't it time we shook hands, I said if you must you must, but I didn't like that because it was a bazaar then, it wasn't filmmaking. I[…]

[…]ters.NA: (laughs) Six sisters!CL: Which were all very photographic. So I had quite a model agency on my own. And I was able to take the most terrible pictures on this camera and expose them to sunlight and develop them in the lavatory just beyond the kitchen door and I can remember my mother complai[…]

[…]er about a couple of years they said – well you can be a sound camera operator. And I was absolutely thrilled at the thought of actually working on a picture. I worked with a mixer called John Cooke who was I think I am right in saying some relation of John Cox. I think he was his brother-in-law, wo[…]

[…] lot of films - I remember - quite a well-known picture - '77 Park Lane' was made there. A host […]

[…] if I wasn’t retired now, I’d still be in today. It was in fact that all I knew was cockney, which was the local accent so when I went to do my first picture at Elstree in 1940, 41, they were all a bit astounded because this was the first genuine cockney voice they heard. Because all those kids who […]

[…]studios. We had two stages I think, then they were converted to sound and er, we were... See, the films being made in those days, they were all quota pictures, a pound a foot - how the hell they did it, I can't know! They contracted with an American company and they had to produce a finished film - […]

[…]: the studio would take you on for two weeks, which might become six. One time I remember I was there for about six months, constantly going from one picture to another. So, you could be there days on a Vincent Korda picture, The Holly and The Ivy or whatever; and rush across to Moulin Rouge with Jo[…]